Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco Transportation Authority personnel committee. My name is supervisor avalos chair of the Transportation Authority and chair of this committee and joined to my left by commissioner cohen and we will be joined shortly by commissioner mar. Our sfgtv staff who are broadcasting today are Jessie Larsen and john. Thank you for your work today and other committees at the board of supervisors. Madam clerk would you call the first item. Item number one roll call. Commissioner avalos. Present. Commissioner cohen. Present. Commissioner mar. Absent. We have a quorum. We have a quorum. Great. Lets go to next item. Item two is approval of the november 12, 2013 meetings. This is an action item. Okay. We have the minutes. Any questions . Okay. Lets open the minute for public comment. Any member that would like to comment please come forward and seeing none we will close public comment. [gavel] motion to approve the minutes. Move it. Second. I will take a vot
And other committees at the board of supervisors. Madam clerk would you call the first item. Item number one roll call. Commissioner avalos. Present. Commissioner cohen. Present. Commissioner mar. Absent. We have a quorum. We have a quorum. Great. Lets go to next item. Item two is approval of the november 12, 2013 meetings. This is an action item. Okay. We have the minutes. Any questions . Okay. Lets open the minute for public comment. Any member that would like to comment please come forward and seeing none we will close public comment. [gavel] motion to approve the minutes. Move it. Second. I will take a vote. On item two commissioner avalos. Aye. Hen human. Aye. Commissioner mar. Mar absent. Item passes. Great. Next item. Next item is reorganization plans and job classifications with the 2013 Strategic Plan baseline. This is an action item. Great. This item comes to us after the last time that we had growth in stuff for the Transportation Authority was in 2007 and now there are many
Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco Transportation Authority personnel committee. My name is supervisor avalos chair of the Transportation Authority and chair of this committee and joined to my left by commissioner cohen and we will be joined shortly by commissioner mar. Our sfgtv staff who are broadcasting today are Jessie Larsen and john. Thank you for your work today and other committees at the board of supervisors. Madam clerk would you call the first item. Item number one roll call. Commissioner avalos. Present. Commissioner cohen. Present. Commissioner mar. Absent. We have a quorum. We have a quorum. Great. Lets go to next item. Item two is approval of the november 12, 2013 meetings. This is an action item. Okay. We have the minutes. Any questions . Okay. Lets open the minute for public comment. Any member that would like to comment please come forward and seeing none we will close public comment. [gavel] motion to approve the minutes. Move it. Second. I will take a vot
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Preparing capabilities for terrorism, operational coordination, Situational Awareness we would consider that an allowable expense. Are you aware of local Police Department that is purchasing an mrap with their own funds . Im not and nt i couldnt answer that question. The local Police Department buys it. I was around here but according to my briefing here, the First Program was authorized in the Defense Authorization bill. Primarily about the drug wars. Is that correct . Thats correct. What were local Police Departments missing that they needed to be funded or given from the Defense Department to combat the war on drugs. Let me be clear. We do this because were asked to do this. I understand. What what equipment were Police Departments were outgunned by drug gangs so they were looking for protection and fire power. This was expanded in 1997. My note says based on lobbying from Police Organizations. I cant answer why the authorization was expanded. At the time it was for counterterrorism